Southern good roads . st advantage, is apt to be the death blowto good road work in that community. There are sev-eral questions to be considered, as, location, grade, andsurfacing material, regarding which it is necessary toliave the advice of experienced road engineers. Themoney spent in obtaining this advice should be the bestinvestment of any part of the road fund. While some counties are more advantageously situ-ated than others iu relation to materials suitable foruse in the construction of good roads; are more thick\\-populated; and have a greater value of taxable prop-erty per mile of
Southern good roads . st advantage, is apt to be the death blowto good road work in that community. There are sev-eral questions to be considered, as, location, grade, andsurfacing material, regarding which it is necessary toliave the advice of experienced road engineers. Themoney spent in obtaining this advice should be the bestinvestment of any part of the road fund. While some counties are more advantageously situ-ated than others iu relation to materials suitable foruse in the construction of good roads; are more thick\\-populated; and have a greater value of taxable prop-erty per mile of road; yet in every town and county otthe south a consideralile advance can be made in theconstruction of improved roads. Each county has cer-tain (lifticulties to overcome in relation to good roadsproblems and these conditions as they exist should befaced fairly. The question of the distribution of materials wliichare suitable for road construction is a matter thatneeds invostigatiiU in each stale. A large part of the. Macadam Road, Mecklenburg County, N. C, south appears on cursory inspection, such as is ordi-narily given, to be essentially destitute of materialswhich can be used in building roads, yet, when an en-gineer investigates this same region there are oftenlocated deposits of gravel and rock that are suitablefor road material. Suitable clays and sands readily re-veal themselves to his trained eye, and, in the end, iti.^ found that a good, surfaced road can be constructed, the means of the inhaliitants, where hadalways thought it was impossible. I believe that to advocate, indiscriminately, macad-am or tar-macadam roads as the only improved roadsfor the south, would discourage and effectually setback the cause of good roads in many sections. Wemust intelligently decide which road is best for eachcommimity. There is. however, an opportunity forthe improvement of the public roads in every countyin the south; and, where some will make macadam,some sand-clay,
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